The full DC Circuit on Tuesday seemed skeptical of the Trump administration’s claims that it has the right to claw back $16 billion in federal grants for climate projects.
Judges on the US Court Appeals for the DC Circuit repeatedly grilled the government’s lawyer about whether the EPA could have simply frozen the funds instead of terminating them and casted doubt on whether the government had any proof of fraud, waste, or abuse among the grantees.
Yaakov Roth, principal deputy assistant attorney general of the civil division at the Justice Department, argued ...